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answer from Marcos ARRUDA, Ally, Brazil , 27 June 2005

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1/ It needs to make more explicit the methodology that is proposed to cope with the challenge of being decentralized and relying on a guarantor group and on a foundation. In certain occasions the international process of the first stage failed to be collective and participatory. The initiative taken by the FPH may be opportune, but it risks to ignore the accumulation of experience and thought, as well as the dynamics of collective decision-making developed by the webs of allies that collaborated in the first phase. How can we overcome this risk?
2/ The emphasis on building a global community is highly satisfactory. This coincides perfectly with how PACS understood the Alliance from the outset.
3/ “A rejection”: not only all forms of exchange are reduced to commodity trade, but also people themselves, their work, knowledge and creativity, their bodies, their souls and their yearnings.
4/ Ethics: very well put. However, it contrasts with certain instances of the first stage. In the second stage we must endeavor to be much more consistent.
I need clarification about the “rules of confidentiality”. They are not mentioned anywhere else in the Charter, what do they refer to?

I think that one of the main ethical principles to emphasize is the respect for the diversity of thoughts and practices within the Alliance and the endeavor to create unanimities, common projects and concerted action without sacrificing that diversity.

 

 

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